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黑

hēi

HSK 2 Character

What 黑 means

1. black
2. dark
3. sinister
4. secret
5. shady
6. illegal
7. to hide (sth) away
8. to vilify
9. loanwordto hack (computing)

Other readings

黑 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Hēishort name for Heilongjiang {黑龙江|Hēi lóng jiāng}

Example sentences

• 他晒不黑。
  Tā shài bù hēi.
  He doesn't tan.
• 天快黑了。
  It will be dark soon.
• 天要黑了。
  It was getting dark.
• 她很怕黑。
  She is very afraid of the dark.
• 看看黑板。
  Look at the blackboard.
• 请看黑板。
  Look at the blackboard.

Words starting with 黑

• 黑板hēi bǎnblackboard
• 黑色hēi sèblack
• 黑暗hēi àndark; darkly; darkness
• 黑人hēi rénblack person; an illegal
• 黑夜hēi yènight
• 黑白hēi báiblack and white; right and wrong; monochrome
• 黑社会hēi shè huìcriminal underworld; organized crime syndicate
• 黑客hēi kè(computing; loanword) hacker
• 黑帮hēi bāngbunch of gangsters; criminal gang; organized crime syndicate
• 黑影hēi yǐngshadow; darkness; twilight
• 黑龙江省Hēi lóng jiāng ShěngHeilongjiang Province, capital Harbin 哈尔滨市
• 黑发hēi fàblack hair
• 黑幕hēi mùhidden details; dirty tricks; dark secrets
• 黑洞hēi dòng(astronomy) black hole
• 黑道hēi dàodark road; unlawful activities (contrasted with 白道; the underworld; criminal gangs
• 黑手hēi shǒu(fig.) malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes; hidden hand; (Taiwan) mechanic
• 黑车hēi chēunlicensed or unofficial taxi; unlicensed motor vehicle
• 黑马hēi mǎdark horse; fig. unexpected winner
• 黑心hēi xīnruthless and lacking in conscience; vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy…
• 黑名单hēi míng dānblacklist
• 黑市hēi shìblack market
• 黑子hēi zǐblack piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go); (astronomy) sunspot
• 黑格尔Hēi gé ěrGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
• 黑脸hēi liǎnstern or displeased expression; to show such an expression

Words containing 黑

• 乌黑wū hēijet-black; dark
• 漆黑qī hēipitch-black
• 天黑tiān hēito get dark; dusk
• 慕尼黑Mù ní hēiMünchen or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
• 黝黑yǒu hēidark; black; suntanned
• 摸黑mō hēito grope about in the dark
• 抹黑mǒ hēito discredit; to defame; to smear sb's name
• 暗黑àn hēidark; dim
• 昏天黑地hūn tiān hēi dìlit. dark sky and black earth (idiom); fig. pitch dark; to black out
• 白纸黑字bái zhǐ hēi zì(written) in black and white
• 德黑兰Dé hēi lánTehran, capital of Iran
• 起早贪黑qǐ zǎo tān hēito be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
• 颠倒黑白diān dǎo hēi báilit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately…
• 打黑dǎ hēito crack down on illegal activities; to fight organized crime
• 拉黑lā hēito add sb to one's blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc)…
• 月黑yuè hēimoonless (night)
• 波黑Bō HēiBosnia and Herzegovina (abbr. for 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那
• 涉黑shè hēigang-related
• 老黑lǎo hēi(colloquial) black person
• 自黑zì hēi(slang) to self-deprecate; to make fun of oneself
• 变黑biàn hēito darken
• 开黑kāi hēi(slang) (online gaming) to team up with friends in a coordinated private group (黑
• 月黑天yuè hēi tiānthe dark; night
• 涉黑案shè hēi àngang-related case; criminal case

Characters that look like 黑

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 奠diànto fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 葱cōngscallion; green onion
• 粟sùmillet; (metonym) grain
• 禀bǐngto make a report (to a superior); to give; to endow
• 巽xùnto obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦; ☴
• 覃tándeep

Sounds the same

Read hēi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 嘿hey
• 𬭶hassium (chemistry)